spurgall

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

spur +‎ gall

Noun[edit]

spurgall (plural spurgalls)

  1. A place galled or excoriated by use of the spur.

Verb[edit]

spurgall (third-person singular simple present spurgalls, present participle spurgalling, simple past and past participle spurgalled)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To gall or wound with a spur.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for spurgall”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)